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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
PowerBall · draw · plus
plusPowerBall
JackpotZAR 3,000,000
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 1/20 · since Jun 2018draw 772 of 1,719 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 November 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 76 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 99% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 77 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 771 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.
Frequency Explorer →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (12, 29, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 October 2025 — its closest relative in 771 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 November 2025): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 123 — the 44th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →32 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 10 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 1 + PowerBall — 48,838 winners, 1% more than the 48k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 3,000,000 |
| 5 | 3 | ZAR 47,032 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 13 | ZAR 6,796 |
| 4 | 290 | ZAR 516 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 644 | ZAR 263 |
| 3 | 12,287 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 9,244 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 48,838 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 79,190 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 150,509 | — |